no code implementations • 30 Jan 2022 • Kyle Mahowald, Evgeniia Diachek, Edward Gibson, Evelina Fedorenko, Richard Futrell
The conclusion is that grammatical cues such as word order are necessary to convey subjecthood and objecthood in a minority of naturally occurring transitive clauses; nevertheless, they can (a) provide an important source of redundancy and (b) are crucial for conveying intended meaning that cannot be inferred from the words alone, including descriptions of human interactions, where roles are often reversible (e. g., Ray helped Lu/Lu helped Ray), and expressing non-prototypical meanings (e. g., "The bone chewed the dog.